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After receiving my Ph.D. in Philosophy from The University of Virginia, I began teaching in the Philosophy Department at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Fall semester of 2010. I then served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Bioethics at UNC (funded by the UNC School of Nursing) from 2013-2014. During 2015 I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University.

I have been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at UNC since 2011. Briefly after I arrived at UNC in 2010 I met a professor of psychiatry who was doing research on the philosophical underpinnings of psychiatry: Gary Gala, MD Shortly after discovering our many common research interests, we co-founded a Philosophy and Psychiatry Reading and Research Group (PPRG). The group regularly held meetings in the Department of Philosophy from 2010-2015. We now occasionally hold meetings at the UNC School of Medicine. I was invited to join the Department of Psychiatry in order to develop educational projects and research with Dr. Gala. We co-edited Philosophy and Psychiatry: Problems, Intersections and New Perspectives (Routledge 2016), which is largely inspired by our work with PPRG.

I have extensive training in Medical Ethics and Health Services Research, with a focus on Mental Health Ethics and Policy. I was a postdoctoral fellow in Health Care Quality and Patient Outcomes from January 2013-December 2014. The fellowship was funded by the UNC School of Nursing (PI: Dr. Barbara Mark) and the mentor for my project was Dr. Eric Juengst (Director of the Center for Bioethics at UNC). During that time, I conducted a massive review of the philosophical literature on human enhancement and Dr. Juengst and I co-authored an entry on the topic for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

After completing that fellowship, I was a trainee in the National Research Service Award (NRSA) Mental Health Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program, which is a collaborative project between The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC and the Duke University Medical Center. The mentor for my training program was Dr. Jeffrey Swanson (Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University). We worked on topics in public health law and policy, including mandated community treatment for psychiatric disorders, psychiatric advance directives, and the relation of mental illness and violence.